AWARTA, West Bank, April 17 (UPI) -- Israeli security forces have arrested two Palestinian teens who allegedly admitted to murdering five members of a family in March, officials said.
Haaretz reported Sunday that Amjad Awad, 19, and Hakim Awad 18, from the West Bank Arab village of Awarta, allegedly admitted to murdering the five members of the Fogel family, who lived in the settlement of Itamar.
Investigators said the unrelated suspects are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, although they did not say the organization ordered the killings.
Killed on the night of March 11 were Ehud and Ruth Fogel, and three of their children, Yoav, 11, Elad, 4 and Hadas, three months.
Shin Bet investigators said the victims were stabbed to death, although Ruth Fogel was reportedly shot as well.
Shin Bet arrested six additional Palestinian suspects in connection to the crime, four of them members of the same family.
The Jerusalem Post said Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency, described the incident a premeditated terror attack.
Israel Radio said Amjad Awad reportedly said that if he had known there were two more children in the home the night of the attack that he would have killed them as well.
Shin Bet investigators said neither of the teens arrested in the killings showed any remorse during questioning.
